Remembering 9/11

September 11, 2013 |compiled from wire photos

New York City and the nation are commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and one crash landed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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Loreen Sellitto pauses Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at the Garden of Remembrance Memorial in Boston Public Garden to honor her son, Matthew, who died in the 9/11 terror attacks in in New York. The two passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 flew out of Logan International Airport in Boston.

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Loreen Sellitto pauses Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at the Garden of Remembrance Memorial in Boston Public Garden to honor her son, Matthew, who died in the 9/11 terror attacks in in New York. The two passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 flew out of Logan International Airport in Boston.